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Israeli cyber unit responsible for Iran computer worm–claim
An elite Israeli military unit responsible for cyberwarfare has been accused of creating a virus that has crippled Iran's computer systems and stopped work at its newest nuclear power station.
Computer experts have discovered a biblical reference embedded in the code of the computer worm that has pointed to Israel as the origin of the cyber attack.
The code contains the word "myrtus", which is the Latin biological term for the myrtle tree. The Hebrew word for myrtle, Hadassah, was the birth name of Esther, the Jewish queen of Persia.
In the Hebrew Bible, The Book of Ester tells how the queen preempted an attack on the country's Jewish population and then persuaded her husband to launch an attack before being attacked themselves.
Israel has threatened to launch a preemptive attack on Iran's facilities to ensure that the Islamic state does not gain the ability to threaten its existence.